Game apparatus.



H. B. PALMER.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED mums, 1913.

1,098,680, Patented June 2, 1914.

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H. B. PALMER.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1B, 1913.

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Patented June 2, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY B. PALMER, 035 NEW YORK, N. Y., A$SIGNOR TO MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, .A. CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 18, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914.

Serial No. 774,436.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lHARRY B. PALMER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a game which I propose to call Traparat, and which may be played by any number of persons up to four. Among; its important advantages are the facts that it is extremely cheap and simple and cannot be attended by any danger even if played by the very smallest children, yet, at the same time, it is amus ins; and exciting and permits the acquisition of a good deal of skill in its practice.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of the game; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, partly broken out. Fig. 3 is a perspective view thereof. Fig. t is a detail view of my propelling device.

The game comprises a board a boxed at its sides, as shown at Z and having, substantially in its center, a revoluble trapmember 0 provided with apertures (Z, as clearly shown in the drawings. The aper tures (Z are in the form of a channel going all the way through the member 0, as shown by dotted lines in 1 and 2. Mounted in the member 0 is an upright post d carrying an arm 0 from which is suspended, by the cord 7, the ball f]. hastened to two of the side walls 7) of the board are the uprights 7L connected at their tops by a crossrod 2', which has a bearing; for the rod d. A spiral spring 7c attached at one end to the rod (Z and at the other to the cross-rod 71, provides the motive power for the revoluble element 0. At either end of the board is a propelling device Z adapted to propel a ball m from a socket it provided immediately in front of the propelling device in the direction of the r-evoluble trap-member c.

To play the game, the rod CZ is turned, winding up the spring ii: to the extent de sired. When the rod is thereafter released, it will turn to rotate back under the impulse: of the spring is. This return rotation of the rod (Z, however, will be interrupted at intervals because the ball being radially extended by centrifugal force, will wrap around the post it, interrupting the revolution of the rod of and the member 0 until the ball has unwrapped itself from one of these posts, when the revolution of the member can continue until the ball wraps itself around the next post, and so on. Thus, it will be seen that the member 0 has a continually and regularly interrupted rotation. The object of the game is to drive the balls or into the apertures in the member 0 during the intervals in which these recesses come to rest. Appropriate scorinp; values are assigned to each successful attempt to get a ball in a recess.

Having now described my invention, but recognizing that many changes and modifications may be made from the specific forms in which I have chosen here to illustrate it without departing from the scope of the invention, which is more truly bounded and defined by the claims hereto appended, I claim,

1. A game apparatus, comprising; a board, a projecting device upon the board, a revoluble element having apertures, means to revolve said element, and means to interrupt its revolution.

2. A game apparatus, comprising a board, a plurality of projecting devices upon the board, a revoluble element having apertures, a post upon said revoluble element, a spring for rotating the post, an arm upon the post carrying an attached ball, and an upright at each side of the board.

3. A. game apparatus, comprising a revoluble element having apertures with scoring; values, means to revolve said element, and means to interrupt its revolution and means arranged to impel a movable device in said apertures and said movable device.

at. A game apparatus, comprising a revoluble element having apertures, aspring for revolving said element, a swinging element connected to said revoluble element by a flexible connection, and a plurality of posts about which the flexible connection wraps itself as the said element revolves, thereby interrupting; its revolution.

HARRY B. PALlVlER.

Witnesses:

P. B. ArKINs, H. L. SLAoK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Uommissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

